blockMesh 'command not found' on Ubuntu 16.04
 

Dear all,

I am freshly new with OpenFOAM and I am going to use it for my PhD work. I recently installed it on Ubuntu 16.04 following the instructions from openfoamwiki website and just tried to run blockMesh. I faced the 'command not found' issue, so I checked online what could be the problem but I couldn't find a solution myself. I checked the log.make file but I can't find an error in it, maybe you will?

The end of my bashrc is as following:
I've added the second line based on what I found on another thread but it didn't change anything. Do I need to add something more?

On the other hand, paraview is running fine from the bash.

Many thanks for your help.
Frederick

Have you executed the command
in your shell? Or added it to your .bashrc? Your second command
does not make sense, because you add a file to the list of pathes, where commands for your shell are searched.

Currently, I am also encountering the same problem- blockMesh 'command not found'.

Previous to it was giving error "error while loading shared files." Then I added "source /home/magar/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.0/etc/" to ~/.bashrc.

However it made the problem worse.

Hi,

This should be "source /home/magar/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.0/etc/bashrc"

When you mean it made the problem worse, what were the error messages?

Cheers,
Antimony

Thank you Antimony for your quick reply...

Also I figured out I need to source the bashrc file " source ~/.bashrc " . I didnt do this step so I was getting error as "blockMesh: 'command not found'"

Thanks again.

For future reference, this kind of issue is documented here: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...with_the_Shell ;)